Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time Marshall Field decided to quit, his firm had achieved financial maturity. It is generally understood that he left his money in the business with no strings attached in the form of special or limited partnership interests. Glore, Forgan & Co. will start the new year as one of the top underwriting houses of the country...
...view, history will soon begin to record that altogether too many subjects of King George VI are altogether too unsatisfied with what little they know about how Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin secured the abdication and departure of King Edward (TIME, Dec. 21). The fact that Edward VIII had apparently quit, and was even being called contemptuously a "quitter" last week, failed to appease the patient resolve of Scotsmen to know all, sooner or later. The adjournment of the House of Commons in London last week was welcomed by Scottish constituents as an opportunity to get their Scottish...
...head of the Nicaraguan National Guard, created and trained by U. S. Marines during the seven-year U. S. occupation, Rebel Somoza last June virtually seized control of Nicaragua (TIME, June 8 et seq.). He forced Liberal President Juan Bautista Sacasa to quit before his term had expired, made it necessary for Congress to appoint Dr. Carlos Brenes Jarquin Provisional President to fill...
There were snags in that courtship. Ever since Caruso died and Farrar quit the Met, its Italian and French wings needed new blood. Witherspoon had planned to go abroad after fresh talent, dropped dead on the eve of his sailing. Johnson's sailing was delayed six weeks. By that time many a top-notch singer had been engaged, and last year's French and Italian performances had to string along with as little life as ever...
...floor below, the sound of falling furniture, of breaking glass. Several conferees anxiously rushed down, found young John Roosevelt flat on the dining room floor amid several shattered family relics, found Gus grinning, dusting off his clothes, muttering, "Now, darn your little hide, I guess you'll quit prepping with [kidding...